4 Jun 2019

Olympic legend Yvette Corlett a Dame at last

From Morning Report, 7:21 am on 4 June 2019

Roy Williams says his Olympic champion "big sis" has finally got the recognition she has long deserved.

Yvette Corlett has been made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to athletics, a month and a half after her death, aged 89.

Her brother Roy Williams told our sports reporter Brenton Vannisselroy she was notified of the honour shortly before she died.